Given the prevailing chaos and the image that the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) In recent months, the Higher Sports Council (CSD) The most important institution in Spanish football will intervene.
The CSD Board of Directors will analyze “the actions that, if applicable, should be adopted in relation to the RFEF” after the Administrative Court of Sports (TAD) opened a file to the Management Commission that directs the federative entity”, reported sources from the CSD.
The TAD decided last week to open a file for “very serious infractions” against Pedro Rocha, who resigned from the presidency of the Management Commission to run for president of the RFEF, as well as the rest of the members of the Commission, for allegedly overstepping their duties.
The TAD considered that the Commission could have gone beyond its functions by, among other measures, renewing the Spanish coach, Luis de la Fuente.
“There can be no more decisions by the RFEF that could represent an overreach,” said the president of the CSD, José Manuel Uribes, last week in a commission in the Congress of Deputies.
“The CSD and the Government are going to do everything they have to do to redirect this unacceptable situation” that occurred in the RFEF and that “from now on things will be done differently,” then added the also Secretary of State for the Sport.
The CSD could choose today to disqualify Rocha and the Commission, which took charge of the direction of the RFEF after the resignation of Luis Rubiales as a result of the scandal of the forced kiss on international Jenni Hermoso at the World Cup in Australia.
According to the Spanish press, the CSD will not sanction Rocha and the rest of the Commission, allowing Rubiales’ successor to be made official as the new president this week, but will create a mixed commission with the RFEF, which will keep the Government informed.
This commission, which could be headed by former Spanish coach Vicente del Bosque, would be a kind of supervision, since only FIFA can intervene in the RFEF.
In addition, new elections would be called after the Olympic Games.
The intervention has the approval of FIFA, with which the CSD has been holding meetings in recent weeks. In fact, the idea comes from a conversation between Uribes and the general secretary of FIFA, the Swede Mattias Grafsröm. The latter brought to light the example of Italy in 2006, when the government of the transalpine country intervened in the federation following the scandal known as calciumpoli: some managers of the most important clubs in Serie A were in charge of influencing the appointment of the referees so that their teams benefited from the matches. Illegal betting was also part of the scandal. The reins of Italian football were taken by a prestigious lawyer, Guido Rossi, who served as president, and two vice-presidents: one an expert in sports law, Paolo Nicoletti, and a prestigious former footballer, Demetrio Albertini.
CSD sources assure that the composition of the committee designated to direct Spanish football will be similar.
Source: Ambito
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